88 mercury 4.3 no spark

9199racing

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Hello I am a newbie on the site and need some serious advice.I just bought an old 88 cadarette holiday 200 it has a inboard merc 4.3.I bought it not running old owner says it has no spark.Well hes right it doesnt.I bought a new ignition module for inside the distributor and that did not help.It has power on the left side of the coil but no power to the distributor.I dont want to keep throwing parts at it because that gets expensive and annoying really really quickly so any help would be awesome.Thanks.oh it has a thunderbolt ignition.
 

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Re: 88 mercury 4.3 no spark

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9199racing

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Re: 88 mercury 4.3 no spark

Ok so heres the update,I couldnt find any issues so I priced out the ignition box and it was about 500 bucks and Im not sure that is even the issue so I ended up putting and msd ignition on.I have had great luck in my drag car with msd products so lets see how my boat makes out.Thanks to all who tried to help me.
 
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